Rose Panic

 

Roses From My Garden

There is so much to learn about rose gardening.

I feel so often that I am making it up as I go along, and I have so many questions, even though my roses previously grew and bloomed in spite of me.

I wish I could talk to my Grandmother Mills.

She grew all of her plants from cuttings and in coffee cans, and everything grew.

I went to the nursery this morning to look at rose bushes, and they were ALL gone.

I panicked and asked why?

A nice young man said, “M’am, people have already planted their new roses.”

“But it is still cold,” I said.

“M’am, that’s when they like it.”

So I went back home and looked through my giant stack of library gardening books for Southwest gardening (note to self: get ONE book next time), and I quote:

In January, roses transplant easily on cool days. Choose a cool cloudy day. Lift the plant and inspect the roots carefully. Remove any diseased or dead roots.

Dust the roots with sulphur to help heal small lesions and prevent rotting problems.  (Month by Month Gardening in the Desert Southwest)

At which point my roses from our old house shouted across the miles:

“Mister- she’s not going to do all of that!”

Well, I never.

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